Example sentences of "was [adv] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the symposium , ‘ Are You Prepared for IT ? ’ , hosted by Zenith Data Systems , Gates spoke out on object programming , saying he thought the concept was just another hype that extends far beyond the reality available today — having said that , he said to look out for Microsoft 's Object Linking and Embedding 2.0 ‘ during 1993 ’ , saying he was all for any technology that will enable the economical re-use of parts of programs . |
| 2 | This idea was so firmly rooted that it was perhaps for this reason that these results from radio astronomy seem not to have been widely accepted at first . |
| 3 | She was sure it would get Edouard and his wife into trouble , and she kept saying it was only for another day or two . ’ |
| 4 | It was only for another week . |
| 5 | The overwhelming need was just for more films and so nobody really worried if there were a few strange films somewhere along the spectrum and similarly , as there was a need for lots of directors and cameramen , there was no harm in making films which allowed them to gain experience . |
| 6 | But the provisional guid the guideline which was set by Policy and Resources in the first instance , was just for this Committee to identify seventy thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |
| 7 | During his childhood , Holovich had been taught Russian by his mother and it was ostensibly for that reason that his company asked him to visit Moscow — a quite spurious reason because we supply most adequate and experienced interpreters for commercial negotiations with foreign concerns . |
| 8 | Yet in everything that really mattered , their concern was always for each other — and of course the children . |
| 9 | But it was probably for another reason that Mahmoud had called on him . |
| 10 | It was probably for this reason that we missed some of the more esoteric waders like broad-billed sandpiper and jack snipe which are known to nest in this area . |
| 11 | It was probably for this reason that the parish registers were not fully established until the reign of Elizabeth I , the fear of taxation and also that the clergy of this period had a dislike of statistics and generally met the injunction by a policy of passive resistance . |
| 12 | But it was precisely for that reason that they were likely to lose . |
| 13 | In yet another school we observed science lessons using a topic approach in the library and were reliably informed that the proposed project purchase in this subject was precisely for this kind of use . |
| 14 | It was precisely for this purpose that the United States Government obstructed the carrying out of the Moscow Agreement on Korea , which envisaged the speediest creation of an independent Korean democratic State . |
| 15 | Er , he was indeed for some time the er secretary of the er er divisional Labour party . |
| 16 | It was initially for this reason that fieldwork in Andersonstown was delegated to one of the informants , while Harris himself carried out the Braniel study . |
| 17 | I was there for another month , then they sent me to Bullwood Hall . |
| 18 | He was there for some time , and was with her when she regained consciousness for the last time . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I was there for some time before you arrived , Caroline . |
| 20 | The lines could , of course , be read as reflecting on Alison : " she was there for any man " . |
| 21 | If Gharr was there for any reason to do with me , I 'd have to wait and find out . |
| 22 | It was principally for that purpose the Task Force was conceived . ’ |
| 23 | On most occasions when mass demonstrations took place there were clashes with the police and it was primarily for this reason that the Labour Party and the TUC tried to discourage such a form of protest . |
| 24 | Having secured miners ' place at the top of the manual wages league , there was nowhere for that economism to go . |